Euskal Oiloa Chicken Forum

A place to find out more and share what you know about this awesome rare poultry breed! **NOTE: Those who wish to register as a new member on the forum are asked to email eochickenforum@gmail.com and an Administrator will gladly help you join the forum!

Adverts

Adverts

New chicks here too!

And seeing as I am in Hawaii I can't take them home with me but I am enjoying them thoroughly nonetheless!

We knew we had a resident rooster the first night we got here as he crowed to greet us:

We bought some birds seed for him and have been sharing our fruit and he has been enjoying our gifts. I told my DH that if we fed him well maybe he could attract some hens...Well today we discovered we sorely underestimated our solitary rooster.

Out by the garage this is what DH saw:

The happy family:

But stay tuned as 7 feet up, in a box in the garage, DH also found this...and I think we hear peeping!

Our rooster has a strut to his walk for very good reason it seems. Let's hope the mongoose are as clueless as we were....

Re: New chicks here too!

Re: New chicks here too!

Question #1rooster has yellow legs hen has green legs the chicks have yellow legsThey areA a pair of pullets?B a pair of cockerels?C unknown as epidermis is not sex linked?D unknown as epidermis colour doesn't show up until 1-2 months of age?

Herd of Brown Swiss, a few sheep, red cuckoo basque, Silverspangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben, ameraucanas(EE), Welsummer, broodie silkies and a few more heritage hens

Re: New chicks here too!

Re: New chicks here too!

Sorry couldn't resist! That is very cool that you have chicks right in the garage while on Holiday in Hawaii! By the time your back home it is probably warm enough to set up the incubator even in Athabasca Alberta. It was 16C and sunny today in Ontario today! The forecast calls for daytime high of 15-19C every day this week.

Herd of Brown Swiss, a few sheep, red cuckoo basque, Silverspangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben, ameraucanas(EE), Welsummer, broodie silkies and a few more heritage hens

Re: New chicks here too!

Flat Rock Farm wrote:

They are beautiful, I wonder what breed they are. Maybe a mix??

Oh they are most decidedly a mix, a hawaii special! They are fairly tame though, not sure if that's because they were once looked after by humans (there is an empty coop in the yard) or what. When the big hurricane went through (iniki, in the 1990's I think?) lots of chickens were freed from their coop by the storm and have crossbreed with the chickens that were already roaming the islands freely.

gubi wrote:

Sorry couldn't resist! That is very cool that you have chicks right in the garage while on Holiday in Hawaii! By the time your back home it is probably warm enough to set up the incubator even in Athabasca Alberta. It was 16C and sunny today in Ontario today! The forecast calls for daytime high of 15-19C every day this week.

Oh don't you know it gubi I will be firing up that incubator pretty much as soon as I get home the only thing keeping me from it so far was this trip!

Re: New chicks here too!

I hope that you are having the best time ever pg, I loved taking pictures and hanging with the chickens when we were in Hawaii last year. They are so pretty, glad you could enjoy some chooks while you are there so you won't miss home too much.

Re: New chicks here too!

Re: New chicks here too!

I haven't successfully gotten a picture of a mongoose so far but they are definately in the weasel family. A larger light brown weasel. They were brought to Hawaii on purpose to control rats but rats are nocturnal and mongoose are out in the day so instead they eat birds. I don't think they take down grown chickens, just chicks and perhaos eat egg. Kauai is the only island that is still mongoose free...and the wild chickens on Kauai are amazing.